Route prefixes in Laravel - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Route prefixes

📖 Scenario: You are building a simple web application with Laravel. You want to organize your routes by grouping them under a common URL prefix to keep your code clean and easy to manage.

🎯 Goal: Create a route group with the prefix admin and define two routes inside it: one for /dashboard and one for /settings. Each route should return a simple string response.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a route group with the prefix admin

Inside the group, define a GET route for /dashboard that returns the string 'Admin Dashboard'

Inside the group, define a GET route for /settings that returns the string 'Admin Settings'

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Route prefixes help organize URLs in web applications, making it easier to manage related routes like admin pages.

💼 Career

Understanding route groups and prefixes is essential for Laravel developers to write clean, maintainable routing code.

1

Create the initial routes

Create two GET routes outside any group: one for /dashboard that returns 'Dashboard' and one for /settings that returns 'Settings'.

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Create GET route for /dashboard returning 'Dashboard'
// Create GET route for /settings returning 'Settings'

Need a hint?

Use Route::get() with the URL and a closure that returns the string.

2

Add the route prefix group

Create a route group with the prefix admin using Route::prefix('admin')->group(function () { ... }); and move the two routes inside this group.

Laravel

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

// Create a route group with prefix 'admin' and move routes inside

Need a hint?

Wrap the routes inside Route::prefix('admin')->group(function () { ... });.

3

Change route responses to indicate admin area

Inside the admin prefix group, change the /dashboard route to return 'Admin Dashboard' and the /settings route to return 'Admin Settings'.

Laravel

group(function () {
    // Change dashboard route response
    // Change settings route response
});

Need a hint?

Update the return strings inside each route closure.

4

Add a named route inside the prefix group

Inside the admin prefix group, add a new GET route for /profile that returns 'Admin Profile' and name this route admin.profile using ->name('admin.profile').

Laravel

group(function () {
    // Add GET route for /profile returning 'Admin Profile' and name it 'admin.profile'
});

Need a hint?

Use Route::get('/profile', function () { ... })->name('admin.profile'); inside the group.